Sudan: reflections, inspirations and aspirations

Modern War is Total War – الحرب الحديثة هي حرب شاملة

“War has long since ceased to be a direct confrontation between the armed forces of two states. As became clear during the clash between the Allied and the Axis powers in World War II,in America’s Indochina War in the 1960s and 1970s, in its Iraq War in 1991, and then again in its 2003 invasion of Iraq, stated do not target just the armed forces of adversary states; they target society itself: war-related industry and infrastructure, economy and workforce, and sometimes, as in the aerial bombardment of cities, the civilian population in general. The old distinctions enshrined in international law, especially the Geneva Conventions, are fading away. Few take these seriously as realist. The trend is for political violence to become generalized and indiscriminate. Modern war is total war.”